sailing to the edge of the world

For the first time ever, I didn't sign up for an h/c bingo card last year (too much to doooo!) so I decided to do the February mini-challenge, where they give you a square of 4 prompts (one is a wildcard) and you have to do a fic that incorporates ALL of them.

Uh.

WILD CARD

orphans

panic attacks

confession in desperate situation

It's the "orphans" part that really throws a monkey wrench into things, because the last two go together really well, and I can of course insert anything I want into the wildcard slot. But. Orphans.

(Though, come to think of it, I can think of a possible way around that one ...)

I think the problem for me right now is that the set of characters who are orphans, and the set of characters I want to write h/c about, don't really overlap. Although, I hadn't really thought about being able to make Neal fit the "orphan" category.

(Also, I just remember Star Wars, which is FULL of orphans. That one has promise.)

(There are actually a couple of canonical orphans, Dottie for example, but again, they aren't really high on the list of characters I want fic about. Although dammit, now I've realized there are several other characters whose parents we don't know anything about ...)

Hmmm.. my first thought is that you could metaphor orphan into something h/c-ey and have that popping up all through the story. Alternately, I'd write something set to Orphans, Kingdoms by Brooke Fraser, because if you look for the meaning of that song, you'll probably be hand-delivered a usable metaphor.

So basically, work hard or borrow and give credit XD This is my way around troublesome prompts.

He was raised by his mom, though, and his dad is definitely still alive! A few people in comments elsewhere have suggested characters whose parents died when they were adults, but idk, that doesn't really seem like "orphan" to me ... (Although Neal probably qualifies more closely than most characters, since he severed ties with his family so completely; he's probably closer to being an orphan emotionally than most of the other adult characters I can think of, including a few who actually WERE orphans.)

Is this for a certain fandom or any fandom? If it's for any fandom, may I point out that comic book Bucky Barnes was an orphan, as was Steve Rogers (his mother died when he was a teen in the 1940s iteration of Steve Rogers, and the MCU... hasn't made it clear how old Steve was?).

Not that I'm jonesing for a panicked!Bucky fic. *cough* Yeah, totally not doing that...

Steve and Bucky were literally the first thing I thought of, but I noped out of MCU fandom hard last year and don't really have any desire to write in it currently. (Mainstream MCU/Avengers fandom, I mean; I'm still skirting around the TV edges of it, obviously.) Otherwise the prompt really couldn't be better suited to Bucky, though. Or Natasha for that matter.

Oh no, I'm sorry if I sounded a little abrupt. There is still a bit of negative feeling over it, but it's not anyone's fault at all, just me not seeing eye to eye with the fandom on some things. I never "officially" flounced because I didn't want to make a big deal out of it. You couldn't have known. :)

You could go the AU route for White Collar Peter, Neal and Mozzie are orphans who were grew up in the same orphanage. After leaving they drift apart and choose different paths Peter a cop and Neal and Mozzie cons . Their world collide again.Like Agent Carter and Dottie idea as well